Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199732205 ISBN 13: 9780199732203

Publisher: OUP USA, 2011

Synopsis

The only comprehensive and authoritative examination of the UN Claims Commission's post-Gulf War work.

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About the Author

Cymie R. Payne was a senior lawyer with the UNCC's environmental claims program from 1999-2005. She is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she was also Director of the Global Commons Project and Associate Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. Ms. Payne practiced law with the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, and the firm of Goodwin, Procter, LLP in Boston. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and a member of the bars of California and Massachusetts.

Peter H. Sand is a lecturer in international environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany; formerly Associate Professor of Law at McGill University Montreal, Canada. Before serving as UNCC Commissioner on the F4 Panel in 1999-2005, he held a number of international positions, including Senior Legal Officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Assistant Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Chief of the Environmental Law Unit of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs of the World Bank.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199732205
• ISBN 13: 9780199732203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Payne Cymie, Sand Peter